C426 Healthcare Values & Ethics Task 1: Questions Derived from the Washington University Paradigm

QUESTIONS DERIVED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PARADIGM Course of Action One Follow Bashirs Wishes

MEDICAL INDICATIONS The Principles of Beneficence and Non-maleficence

What is the patients medical problem? Is the problem acute? Chronic? Critical? Reversible? Emergent? Terminal? The patient suffered a heart attack and fall. The problem is emergent, acute, and will be terminal if left untreated. Using this course of action, describe, in full sentences, necessary considerations via

1. beneficence Even with the possibility of cardiac catheterization and coronary bypass, the patient is 90 years old and suffers from other comorbidities. Would the procedures...